. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory and Practice 87 foreshortened but that below him, while the opposite hill will appear to him far above the head of the man at A, and above the cow at b. In the section, the dotted lines are the respective horizons of the two tig. 10. and the sketches shew the landscape seen by each, in which the forked tree may serve as a scale to measure the height of each horizon. The reflections of objects in water are no less depend- ent on the laws of perspective, or of vision, than the instances already enumerated. If the water b
. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory and Practice 87 foreshortened but that below him, while the opposite hill will appear to him far above the head of the man at A, and above the cow at b. In the section, the dotted lines are the respective horizons of the two tig. 10. and the sketches shew the landscape seen by each, in which the forked tree may serve as a scale to measure the height of each horizon. The reflections of objects in water are no less depend- ent on the laws of perspective, or of vision, than the instances already enumerated. If the water be raised to the level of the ground beyond it, we lose all advantage of reflection from the distant ground or trees : this is the case with pieces of water near the house in many places, for all ponds on high ground present a constant glare of light from the sky ; but the trees beyond can never be reflected on the surface, because the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are always equal, and the surface of the water will always be a perfect horizontal plane. This I shall farther explain by the following lines [Fig. 11]. The spectator at a, in looking on the upper water, will see only sky, because the angle of incident, b, and that of reflection, c, being equal, the latter passes over the top of the trees, d, on lower ground: but the same. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818; Nolen, John, 1869-1937; American Society of Landscape Architects. Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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